Hat-pin.



.PATENTED MAR. 12, 1907;

No.846,5l8.' e. N. STEERE.

HAT PIN. APPLIGATION FILED AUG. 10, 1906.

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GEORGE N. sTEERE, OF oRANsToN, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE N. STEERE AND COMPANY, OF ORANSTON, RHODE ISLAND, A FIRM.

HAT-PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 12, 1907.

State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Pins,

of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to hat-pins, and has for its objects a structure which shall be capable of constituting a concealed receptacle for pins without materially increasing the weight of the pin-head nor destroying its ornamental contour which receptacle shall be readily accessible and avoid the necessity of carrying a special pincushion or of defacing the fabric of the clothing by temporarily carrying the pins therein.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my novel hat-pin with closed top; Fig. 2, a like view of a portion of the same open; Fig. 3, a vertical central section of the head; Fig. 4, a plan of the pin, and Fig. 5 a transverse section of the same on line m x of Fig. 3.

Like reference-letters indicate like parts throughout the views.

My pin comprises a pointed tongue or shaft A, to whose upper end is swaged, soldered, or otherwise fixed a conical-shaped hollow head B, provided with a marginal annular shoulder b, above which extends an upright flange 11. Upon the shoulder b is a hinge 0, connecting the head B with cap-shaped cover D, whose rim (1 is adapted to frictionally engage the flange b and rest upon the shoulder 12 when the cover is closed. A strip of cork E is glued to the interior of the head B and is provided with openings 6 of suflicient size to tightly receive the .pins G, whose lower portions project below the strip into the chamber formed by the wall of the head B.

What I claim is 1. In a hat-pin the combination with a hollow head and a pin-shaft fixed to the head, of means within the head for retaining pins, and a cover hinged to the top of the head.

2. In a hat-pinthe combination with the head and pin-shaft, of a strip fixed within the head provided with perforations to re ceive pins, and a cap-shaped cover hinged to the head. m

In testimony whereof I have afiiXed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE N. STEERE.

Witnesses:

HORATIO E. BELLows, HAROLD E. BALL. 

